There’s only one Z so you’d need to use blanks for the other two Zs and they have no point value.
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I’m a bit of a Scrabble junkie
After reading these responses, I humbly withdraw my observation.
(He said, heading back to his unsolved Sodoku games. And this is why I’m not allowed near a casino.)
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In lush South American forests
A Quetzal’s a beautiful bird,
But if Scrabble’s your game of an evening
Quetzal’s a beautiful word.
Richard Digance, England but probably not recalled word-for-word
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One time, as a seven-year-old, my mom was playing Scrabble. She was having trouble, and I asked her to show me her board.
“Junco,” I suggested.
She tried it out, and accepted it, it was enough points for her.
“Thanks! But what’s a junco?” she then asked me.
“Oh, it’s a kind of bird,” I said.
I had never seen a junco, but I knew what they looked like. At seven (or was it six?) I had memorized all 300 bird cards in my “What Bird Am I?” game. I can still do it 5 or 6 years later, too! :)
(I know this forum topic is for organism names with lots of high-point letters, but I couldn’t resist sharing this!)
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I wouldn’t say it’s the absolute highest but MAYFLY would be a decent play–both Y’s, the M and the F are worth 5 points each, so you get 22 even without bonus squares. But almost any 6-letter word will land on bonus squares, so you’re probably looking at a score in the 30’s or 40s, and even into the 60’s if one of the bonus squares is Triple Word.
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